1 [C] a long curved channel made of metal or plastic that is fixed under the edge of a roof to carry away the water when it rains:
a blocked / leaking gutter
2 [C] a channel at the edge of a road where water collects and is carried away to DRAINS
3 (the gutter) [sing.] the bad social conditions or lack of morals sometimes connected with the lowest level of society:
She rose from the gutter to become a great star. * the language of the gutter (= used when swearing)
verb [V] (literary) (of a flame or candle) to burn in an unsteady way:
The candle guttered in the wind.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gutter is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gutter a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gutter is tagged as noun.
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